P

Letter P: Displaying 741 - 760 of 1582
petɬɑːniɑː

to scatter or sprinkle something (see Molina and Karttunen)

petɬɑntimɑnilistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
petlapan ycpalpan nica

to hold the office of governance, a metaphor (see Molina)

petɬɑpɑn

on the mat (or, in the position as ruler) (see Molina)

petɬɑtikɑlɑki

to break through in a battle; or to penetrate a large group of people (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
petlatitlan icpaltitlan nitlaaquia
petɬɑtɬ

reed mat (loaned to Spanish as petate)
S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 236.

sleeping mat made from palm leaves.

land (milli) dedicated to the cultivation of reeds (tolli, tules) for making woven mats (petlatl)

a rush suitable to make mats

Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 161.

to go about naked; to live naked, nude (see attestations)

the act of being naked, going about naked, living naked (central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagún in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 168–169.

to be thrown out and discovered without any clothing on (see Molina)